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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by INoKnowNames

How do people do the Action Replay "press 3 buttons to have x party" codes, then? Everyone goes through all of that!?! Jesus...

Well, those are Action Replay codes. For those, they typically use an Action Replay, and, uh... There... Wouldn't really be a point to playing on the computer via emulator? You'd just add the code to the Action Replay and load the cheat on your real game from the get-go, no need to bother restoring a dumped save file.*

I know off the top of my head that there's like, five different types of Action Replays for the DS line of systems, most of which aren't in production anymore so you'd be buying old or used merchandise, and each one is in its own state of support and some of them are blocked by firmware. There's one or two Action Replays that can copy save files to a microSD card so they can be copied to a computer, but I'm pretty certain those are blocked by HG/SS and every Pokemon game onwards. Those also use their own save format, and while it's easy to find out how to convert those save files, it's also silly in the first place to even have that problem.

*Caveat emptor and all that, it can actually be pretty easy to end up with some Bad Eggs or lose some save information if you mess up putting the code in or use a code incorrectly.

"Okay, so I'm going to quick draw and dual wield these one-pound caltrops as improvised weapons..."
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"Oh, hey, look! Blue Eyes Black Lotus!" "Wait what, do you sacrifice a mana to the... Does it like, summon a... What would that card even do!?" "Oh, it's got a four-energy attack. Completely unviable in actual play, so don't worry about it."

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

I wish my internet worked...
Or my phone could record battles and audio...

So I'm going to consider something I never thought I would: Nuzlocke
It's up in the air, I won't erase any of my games if they have important competitive stuff on them; but if I grab an old game and mess around I'll probably try one.

Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by boj0

I wish my internet worked...
Or my phone could record battles and audio...

So I'm going to consider something I never thought I would: Nuzlocke
It's up in the air, I won't erase any of my games if they have important competitive stuff on them; but if I grab an old game and mess around I'll probably try one.

Woot! The nuzlocke is spreading!

Originally Posted by Deme

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

I think this was meant to be...
I happened to find my copy of Fire Red after not touching it for a few years, the file that was on it? Saved right before picking my starter lol

So now I start my adventure with Deku the Bulbasaur who won a speed tie with Green's Charmander with only one hit point left. That would've been a fairly quick run but now I'm off for digital ****-fighting and child endangerment!

EDIT: lol word filters

Last edited by boj0; 2012-09-01 at 10:53 PM.

Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Oh my god this is lethal...
So I forgot how strong Gary is in the second battle. Level 9 is a little higher than I remember so say farewell to Air Bojo the Pidgey and Joey the Ratata.
Thankfully Deku is bulky as hell and just seeded everything to death.

In Viridian forest the team is now:
Deku the Bulbasaur
Chrono the Pikachu
And Joey2 the Ratata

Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by boj0

Oh my god this is lethal...
So I forgot how strong Gary is in the second battle. Level 9 is a little higher than I remember so say farewell to Air Bojo the Pidgey and Joey the Ratata.
Thankfully Deku is bulky as hell and just seeded everything to death.

In Viridian forest the team is now:
Deku the Bulbasaur
Chrono the Pikachu
And Joey2 the Ratata

May Arceus bless their souls.

Are you running dupe clause or no?

Also good job with the Pikachu!

Originally Posted by Deme

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by Illven

May Arceus bless their souls.

Are you running dupe clause or no?

Also good job with the Pikachu!

The way I'm doing it is faint = release and catch the first Pokemon in an area UNLESS it is one already in your party/box, hence the second Ratata. In which case you catch the first one you don't have. I think that makes sense.

Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

I'm debating whether to do a nuzlocke as well but I don't want to do it with BW given how similar BW2 is going to be. Might pick up an old version from Gamestop...

If you do, I find the easiest is Ruby/Emerald with a Mudkip.

Originally Posted by boj0

The way I'm doing it is faint = release and catch the first Pokemon in an area UNLESS it is one already in your party/box, hence the second Ratata. In which case you catch the first one you don't have. I think that makes sense.

Yeah, I know that dupe clause.

Originally Posted by Deme

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by boj0

The way I'm doing it is faint = release and catch the first Pokemon in an area UNLESS it is one already in your party/box, hence the second Ratata. In which case you catch the first one you don't have. I think that makes sense.

The variant of the dupe clause I've been running is that once you capture (or attempt to capture) something, you get no more chances at anything from the same evolutionary set. This has allowed me to ignore all Magikarp since capturing the red Gyarados at the lake of rage, but on the other hand, having knocked out a Krabby without capturing it in Olivine city, no more Krabby or Kingler for me.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Considering I'm on Joey3, that may have been a better idea lol
Oh well, Deku handled Misty like a pro (sassy nature ftw) but GARY OAK decided that Charmander should get free rein on Chrono :smallsad: oh and I managed to crit a Zubat in Mt. Moon so I got nothing from there but the fossil. Finished nugget bridge without further incident and am calling it for the night.

Current team:
Deku the Ivysaur lv 20
Girl Talk the Spearow lv 13
Joey3 the Rattata lv 17 yes I have had three of them in under 4 hours

Once you go blue, nothing else will do. Once you go Quarian...someone will die.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by Illven

If you do, I find the easiest is Ruby/Emerald with a Mudkip.

I figured I'd just do one of the more recent ones for ease of transferring pokemon to BW afterwards. I have to say though I'm kind of surprised at the prices though, most of the pokemon games are sitting around $15-$25 used. I expected a little less... But I guess that's the popularity of pokemon for you.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

@userpay Ah. In that case stay away from Platinum it's a challenge. (Unless that's what you want)

Originally Posted by Deme

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by OracleofWuffing

Well, those are Action Replay codes. For those, they typically use an Action Replay, and, uh... There... Wouldn't really be a point to playing on the computer via emulator? You'd just add the code to the Action Replay and load the cheat on your real game from the get-go, no need to bother restoring a dumped save file.*

It'd be kinda hard to get a code that gives one a perfect game file... and that would really beat the purpose of the games anyway, wouldn't it? I'd may as well go get on the smogon battle emulator thingies... and I've done that once. I'm not going back.

Originally Posted by OracleofWuffing

I know off the top of my head that there's like, five different types of Action Replays for the DS line of systems, most of which aren't in production anymore so you'd be buying old or used merchandise, and each one is in its own state of support and some of them are blocked by firmware. There's one or two Action Replays that can copy save files to a microSD card so they can be copied to a computer, but I'm pretty certain those are blocked by HG/SS and every Pokemon game onwards. Those also use their own save format, and while it's easy to find out how to convert those save files, it's also silly in the first place to even have that problem.

So, I'm better off just waiting for the DS to get fixed and just trying to start from scratch / with what I've got, then....

Question: Is there any chance of getting an old, maybe new, maybe used, version of the Gameboy Advance Games and being able to use them? I heard that lots of them (including one of my Emerald Versions) have this weird "battery running out" issue, which isn't good... The emulator doesn't seem to have that problem, though, which makes me sad that I might not be able to use it...

Originally Posted by OracleofWuffing

*Caveat emptor and all that, it can actually be pretty easy to end up with some Bad Eggs or lose some save information if you mess up putting the code in or use a code incorrectly.

Yeah, definitely don't want that.

Call me what you want. Ino's the norm so far.

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Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Ugh, I've looked everywhere and can't find Platinum. I don't really want to pull out all the still-packed-away crap (because only the gods know what is in there), so instead I think I'll try a Soul Silver run instead.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by Derjuin

Ugh, I've looked everywhere and can't find Platinum. I don't really want to pull out all the still-packed-away crap (because only the gods know what is in there), so instead I think I'll try a Soul Silver run instead.

Re: Pokémon Thread XIII: Our Ponies are ON FIRE!

Originally Posted by Derjuin

Ugh, I've looked everywhere and can't find Platinum. I don't really want to pull out all the still-packed-away crap (because only the gods know what is in there), so instead I think I'll try a Soul Silver run instead.

Remember don't pick Chikorita!

Originally Posted by Deme

One day, we must all have our characters butchered by romhacks face our ends.

Playing Atheist England in GMR 12, Playing Siam in GMR 14, Playing as China in GMR 15, Playing as Dutch in GMR 16

Won as Good Mayans on a science victory GMR 4. Won as Sweden on a science victory GMR 7. Won as Desert England on a concession victory GMR 8 Lost as Poland in GMR 3. Lost as Japan in GMR 5, Surrendered as Korea in GMR 10. Surrendered as Bad Maya in GMR 11, Lost as Shoshone in GMR 13.